What's the purpose of a relationship? Do you approach your relationship with family, friends, neighbours, work colleagues differently? Are we sometimes too utilitarian in our relationships?
My relationships with my family and friends often have little intentional purpose. We spend time with one another as an end in itself. It's about just being together for the sake of being together. However, with neighbours and professional relationships the conversation is often not an end in itself there is usually a purpose for the conversation. To go back to Dan Pallotta, I often default into focusing on what we're doing together vs being together.
This is one way I'm trying to dream epicly in relation to being vs doing. Shifting the frame on how I look at time spent with people. I think we'll likely get ever more done together in the long run by giving a little time to being. In order to go together we sometimes need to go a little slower.